Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Happy Fifth Birthday GAC and Mindpixel!

Posted by timothy on from the you-think-you-can-you-think-you-can dept.

mindpixel writes "GAC is five today! Wow, that was fast! To celibrate, I am releasing 80,000 mindpixels with their corresponding probability of truth for research use."

3 of 119 comments (clear)

  1. I love /. by mindpixel · · Score: 4, Informative
    For five years now, more than 50,000 people have been working to make a map of common sense. The project is known as Mindpixel. It was launched on July 6, 2000. On August 24, 2000 Chris McKinstry (me) and Mindpixel were profiled by Robert X. Cringely. In September of 2000 Both Time and Wired magazines carried news of the merger of Mindpixel with the MIT Media Labs Open Mind Common Sense Project.

    Now, what can you do with this data? Well, once it is in the google index - tomorrow, I suspect. Then the 3.5mb page of 80k validated pieces of knowledge will be able to do for consensus internal knowledge what wikipedia does for consensus external knowledge. I hope that eventually, google will trust Mindpixel as it does Wikipedia. Then commercial applications of semantic spectrum based technology can proceed, and the 50,000 owners of the

    1. Re:I love /. by TigerNut · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Google may trust Mindpixel, but I sure don't have to. Not when you're claiming that blue and yellow make green (about 0.95 probability), without qualifying that it only applies to pigments.

      --

      Less is more.

  2. Re:Many of these are inaccurate... by wishus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Inaccurate, and weird.

    0.97 Is Jerry Garcia dead?
    0.90 Did Jerry Garcia die in 1995?
    0.85 Was Jerry Garcia a member of "the Grateful Dead" before he died?
    0.76 Did Jerry Garcia play guitar for the Grateful Dead?
    0.32 Did Jerry Garcia have 9.5 fingers?

    I don't understand how it's 32% probable that Jerry Garcia had 9.5 fingers. Does that mean that, of all the Jerry Garcias in the world, 32% of them have lost half a finger? Or that Jerry Garcia of the Grateful dead had 9.5 fingers for 32% of his life?